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Showing 49214930 of 58419 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 1-7-2003 n° 861

French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Exemptions of more than two years

Article 1384 G

…of social rental housing demolished under the conditions provided for in articles 6 and 9-1 of law n° 2003-710 of 1st August 2003 on the guidelines and programming for towns and urban renewal and pro…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Registration of members of the profession and non-practising graduates

Article D4311-101-1

Professionals who have obtained authorisation to practise part of the profession concerned appear on a separate list containing the professional title under which they are authorised to practise and t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: House arrest with electronic surveillance

Article 142-10

In the event of a decision to dismiss, acquit or acquit having become final, the person placed under house arrest with electronic surveillance shall be entitled to compensation for the harm suffered i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: House arrest with electronic surveillance

Article 142-11

Home detention with electronic monitoring is treated in the same way as pre-trial detention for the purposes of counting its full duration against that of a custodial sentence, in accordance with Arti…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: House arrest with electronic surveillance

Article 142-13

A decree shall determine the detailed rules for the application of this subsection.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: House arrest with electronic surveillance

Article 142-12

Investigating and sentencing courts may, as an alternative measure to pre-trial detention, impose house arrest with electronic surveillance in the cases provided for by articles 135-2, 145, 148, 201,…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Provisions common to property tax on built-up and non-built-up properties

Article 1402

…ster (1). (1) The obligations of notaries, lawyers and solicitors are specified in articles 860 and 861. The obligation to designate properties in deeds and judgments according to cadastral data is sp…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Judicial supervision, house arrest and pre-trial detention

Article 137

Any accused person, presumed innocent, remains free. However, due to the requirements of the investigation or as a security measure, he or she may be subject to one or more obligations of judicial sup…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Public authorities, public institutions or public utilities

Article 1042

I. - Subject to the provisions of I of Article 257, real estate acquisitions made out of court and for valuable consideration by communes or syndicates of communes, public land establishments created…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 7: Additional payment without express consent

Article L121-18

The provisions of this section are of public order.

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